RAISE(3) Library Functions Manual RAISE(3)

NAME

raisesend a signal to the current thread

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>

int
raise(int sig);

DESCRIPTION

The raise() function sends the signal sig to the current thread.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The raise() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions _lwp_self(2) and _lwp_kill(2).

SEE ALSO

kill(2), raise_default_signal(3)

STANDARDS

The raise() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”) and Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification.
May 9, 2011 NetBSD 6.1